This is the easiest way to cook eisbein. It removes some of the fat, cooks it through and you have control over the crackling.
What you need
2 cured and smoked shanks of pork (woolworths has really good ones)
1 onion quartered 1 carrot roughly chopped
1 bay leaf Water
The process
Place the pork shanks into a large pot, add all the rest of the ingredients and put in enough water to cover the pork shanks. Bring it to...